Month: July 2015

Contributing to social good is now literally at everyone’s fingertips. That is why EMC and Earthwatch Institute have teamed up to encourage citizens to become data collectors, or citizen scientists. Through the collection of more data sources, data scientists can better uncover how climate change is affecting plants and animals by altering the timing of key natural events. This collaboration is called the Whenology project, with the first study underway to investigate how climate change is affecting raptor migrations at Acadia National Park. To create awareness and encourage more participation,…

Contributing to social good is now literally at everyone’s fingertips. That is why EMC and Earthwatch Institute have teamed up to encourage citizens to become data collectors, or citizen scientists. Through the collection of more data sources, data scientists can better uncover how climate change is affecting plants and animals by altering the timing of key natural events. This collaboration is called the Whenology project, with the first study underway to investigate how climate change is affecting raptor migrations at Acadia National Park. To create awareness and encourage more participation,…

Before the ink has even really dried on Hadoop Summit15 in San Jose I am sitting down in a rare moment of peace to write out some reflections from my experience and what I have seen from the sessions, keynotes, partners, and users here at the show. Hadoop Gets Real The most lasting impression I got from the overall theme of the show and the people in attendance was that Hadoop is not an “emerging tool” anymore. The momentum, use cases, and indeed the buzz of attendees was that there…